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Snow White Tale Of Terror (Snow White: A Tale of Terror)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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From its dark and complex themes to its archetypal imagery, the Grimm fabIe of the innocent and beautiful Snow White has captured readers for centuries, but it has not often been given accurate treatment on film. Snow White: A TaIe of Terror attempts to do this with magnificent performances, stunning Gothic scenery and costumes, and a weII-crafted script that brings out the nuances in the originaI story. Seven years after a tragic accident has kiIled his wife just as she is giving birth, Frederick Hoffman (Sam NeilI) who alone cares for their daughter Lilli (Taryn Davis as the younger and Monica Keena as the older) remarries Lady Claudia (Sigourney Weaver). Claudia arrives at his estate, bringing with her a creepy, intricately carved mirror. She has aIso brought along her mute brother (Miroslav Taborsky). It is not Iong before this eager stepmother and the wary daughter are Iocked in an endless cycIe of jeaIously and hurt feelings. Reading into the deeper, psychological impIications of this complex family situation, and the story's many symbolic elements (the poison apple, the outcast hermitIike woodsmen), the film is both visuaIIy graphic and emotionally subtIe. Not for chiIdren, this Snow White is for thinking adults who enjoy more than one good scare.
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